hey there!
akash here, i am a typescript engineer, currently bulding stuff @hoppscotch
i've been procrastinating on building my personal website since a long time. what's even the motivation to build one ? all the ai models taking over the world, all the side projects and experiments to work on, new things coming out every other day etc. the world is transitioning to an ai first world, slowly but surely.
so my personal website took a backseat. but untill i get around to building one, enjoy a cool photo of me presenting browserplane ( its a tiny side project i've built ).
and some of my cherry picked tweets. have a nice day!
🧵 code snippets i've used for deploying my api
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) September 3, 2024
i'm trying out fly. will start with fly commands first pic.twitter.com/Ml1mL0wE2N
In the midnight hour, I can feel your power
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) August 20, 2024
Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there
we shipping hard. pic.twitter.com/uukcsQJAyu
a browser extension that downloads and manages all the local models (eg: llms/whisper/segment anything) and provides a nice api for websites to build using them.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) August 18, 2024
( basically ollama as an extension )
- can bypass the 2gb size limitation for caching when loading normally ( i need… pic.twitter.com/tsIpbF7y7K
📢 browserplane has been acquired
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) August 18, 2024
by none other than mother taylor. incredibly excited to work with her. its a dream come true. lets goooo swifteees. pic.twitter.com/LAeTUZDFCU
TIL
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) August 16, 2024
you can use a github personal access token in the clone url to clone a github repo.
this came useful when i wanted to clone a repo to my droplet without setting up SSH and stuff for github.
it goes,
`https://<your_token>/<your-username>/<your-repo>.git`
so handy. pic.twitter.com/VxIll82Uru
a small quality of life update coming to browserplane,
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) July 14, 2024
you can see the screenshot taken as context directly in your conversation.
removes the magic & helps the user understand exactly what went to the model. pic.twitter.com/XxfhSQRZmx
free tier is coming. i'm dying to take this to production. gonna take a few more days.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) July 6, 2024
i'll see if a free tier increases conversions.
lots of changes.
- didn't have a backend prior
- but now we've one, and that enables the free tier stuff
- so moved a lot of FE code to BE, also… pic.twitter.com/fWcZZpIefD
you can try the on device ai model shipped with chrome by downloading the chrome canary and enabling some flags.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) June 28, 2024
no api calls, fully ondevice. uses gemini nano ( it is multimodel, but the apis are only for text as of now ) to power the experience.
but you need 22 GB storage in… pic.twitter.com/dTjG3fcQHT
google gemini can now explain errors in your developer console.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) June 18, 2024
available in chrome 126. pic.twitter.com/VKWcUKBXFm
i was working with async iterators for setting up some llm streaming. and find out this handy Promise method.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) June 14, 2024
its new and browser support is not quiet there yet if you're targeting old browsers. but practically equivalent to the verbose way. can easily be transpiled. pic.twitter.com/hvBmo5KJxN
Hey guys,
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) May 29, 2024
I am launching the initial version of browserplane today.
browserplane is a chrome extension that can see and understand the webpage you're visiting, and help you with any queries.
details + demos in the below thread.
also this will be the cheapest time to grab a… pic.twitter.com/FRXLvGrshu
it's a little annoying that you can get done with the core of the product ( the exciting part ) pretty quickly, but to get it out , you gotta get a lot of mundane stuff done.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) May 15, 2024
but gotta do what we gotta do. pic.twitter.com/MZEpD7klpd
Built a small app that lets me record me speaking using Whisper.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) May 29, 2023
I talk to myself when thinking about ideas or when trying to bring clarity about my thoughts, its feels a lot more natural. pic.twitter.com/uRnWNO8lOy
an api action that puts stuff into your notion + custom gpt + chatgpt mobile app = your thoughts go directly in your notion
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) January 7, 2024
everything's hard-coded right now, but if anyone's interested will spin up a generic version pic.twitter.com/NkSQnk0GfT
i've started posting these videos on instagram. i'm trying to figure out if posting consistently helps an account grow.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) January 7, 2024
because the hardest part about posting consistently is making the videos.
the hardest part about making the videos for me is getting the recording part and… https://t.co/tyhkNnVxi1 pic.twitter.com/JD0shZMn9n
giving birth to an ai powered programming content creator.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) December 28, 2023
what should i call him ?
nb: this is an intial video. i'm planning to throw in a little bit of transitions / animations into this. pic.twitter.com/v20ulvuPgv
I was tinkering around to see if it is possible to build truly local LLM related products.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) November 25, 2023
Just as a start, tried playing around with implementing a vector search with small models that are practical to be embedded in a webapp ( still these are still pretty large for web… pic.twitter.com/MAif9NDYXt
played with custom gpts for some time. random thoughts.
— Akash Mohan (@buriedstupidity) November 14, 2023
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